From: Andi Kleen Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 22:53:28 +0000 (-0800) Subject: x86/retpoline: Optimize inline assembler for vmexit_fill_RSB X-Git-Tag: Ubuntu-5.10.0-12.13~8637^2 X-Git-Url: https://git.proxmox.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3f7d875566d8e79c5e0b2c9a413e91b2c29e0854;p=mirror_ubuntu-hirsute-kernel.git x86/retpoline: Optimize inline assembler for vmexit_fill_RSB The generated assembler for the C fill RSB inline asm operations has several issues: - The C code sets up the loop register, which is then immediately overwritten in __FILL_RETURN_BUFFER with the same value again. - The C code also passes in the iteration count in another register, which is not used at all. Remove these two unnecessary operations. Just rely on the single constant passed to the macro for the iterations. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: David Woodhouse Cc: dave.hansen@intel.com Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180117225328.15414-1-andi@firstfloor.org --- diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h index 19ba5ad19c65..4ad41087ce0e 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/nospec-branch.h @@ -206,16 +206,17 @@ extern char __indirect_thunk_end[]; static inline void vmexit_fill_RSB(void) { #ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE - unsigned long loops = RSB_CLEAR_LOOPS / 2; + unsigned long loops; asm volatile (ANNOTATE_NOSPEC_ALTERNATIVE ALTERNATIVE("jmp 910f", __stringify(__FILL_RETURN_BUFFER(%0, RSB_CLEAR_LOOPS, %1)), X86_FEATURE_RETPOLINE) "910:" - : "=&r" (loops), ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT - : "r" (loops) : "memory" ); + : "=r" (loops), ASM_CALL_CONSTRAINT + : : "memory" ); #endif } + #endif /* __ASSEMBLY__ */ #endif /* __NOSPEC_BRANCH_H__ */